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In article <30FD0BD5.A5B@globaldialog.com> David Scidmore,
davids@globaldialog.com writes:
>Why would Gateway be interested in selling Mac clones? I can't quote
>any sources, but I've heard their share of the PC market is larger
>than Apples. If they are that big then they probably figure that
>the increase support costs would not outweigh the increased revenue
>unless they had an unrelisticaly large share of the Mac market.
>

Last time I looked Gateway was at 3-4% market share. Apple is between
7.5-10%
depending on the quarter. Easily twice that of Gateway.

I think the PC market will shake out to 10-20 main suppliers: IBM,
Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Micron, DEC, NEC, Intel, HP and possibly Sony.
Most of the smaller cloners will vanish like Insight and CompuAdd. The
majority of vendors will be Intel-OEM shops using 100% Intel-supplied
motherboards (like Gateway and Dell).

I think Apple will be marginalized to the point that they are purchased
either outright or they will license their software technology away to
another company such as Sun or SGI.

I also think a totally new platform will show up before 2000 that is
totally incompatible with today's systems.

WT